Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win top mathematics prize, dies

16 July, 2017, 00:22 | Author: Sam Montgomery

Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields Medal, mathematics' leading award, has died of cancer at the age of 40, Stanford News Service said. She received her bachelor's degree from Iran's Sharif University of Technology in 1999 and earned a PhD degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 2004.

After a long battle with cancer, Professor Mirzakhani succumbed to cancer at the age of 40 at a hospital in the USA on Saturday. In 2008 she became a professor of mathematics at Stanford.

Professor Maryam Mirzakhani was the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics.

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Stanford said her work involved the geometric and dynamic complexities of curved surfaces such as spheres and doughnut shapes. "I felt that this was something I could do, and I wanted to pursue this path". In Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said that Mirzakhani's "doleful passing" has caused "great sorrow", state media reported. She then taught at Princeton University before moving to Stanford in 2008.

Maryam Mirzakhani is awarded with the 2014 Fields medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, South Korea on August 13, 2014.

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